Clothes-drying apparatus.



PATENTED'AUG. 1a, 1903.

- D. P. PRESCOTT.

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APPLICATION FILED APR. 25, 1902.

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UNITED STATES "Patented August 18, 1903.

PATENT OEEIcE.

CLOTHES-DRYING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,777, dated August 18, 1903.

Application filed April 25, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LDANIEL P. PRESCOTT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing'at Brattleboro, in the county of Windham and. State of Vermont, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Drying Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothesdrying frames, theobject'thereof being to provide a device of this character adapted particularly for use in city houses whereby the clothes may be either dried on the'frame in the house or whereby the frame 'may be run out of a window, the invention including an improved device for supporting theframe in. the house, which device may be folded up into compact shape when not in use.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the drawings forming part of this application, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the clothesframe and its support when supported out-' side of a window. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device as supported within a room ready to receive clothes which are to be hung out of the window for drying, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the clothes-frame support.

In the drawings, Ct indicates the clothesframe, which is constructed of a fiat galvan ized-iron bar bent up into rectangular form of such dimensions as will readily pass through awindow. The two ends of this bar overlap at the inner end of the frame, and a thumbscrew 1) passes through a slot 0 inone of said ends and into a suitable threaded hole in the other. This permits the two ends to be sprung together, whereby the pins d, located on the two corners of the inner end of the frame, may be entered in suitable sockets provided therefor screwed onto the outside of the windowcasing, which sockets are lettered e.

Extending from end to end of the frame, parallel with the sides thereof, is the cord j, which preferably is laced back and forth through the ends of the frame, as shown. This cord may be of hemp or galvanized-wire rope, as desired.

A trolley-track g is suitably secured to the house and extends outwardly therefrom from the center of the window-frame in a horizonserai No. 104,635. (No model.)

tal position. On this track g is a trolleywheel h, provided with a yoke to which a cord 1; is secured, which is provided with hooks j 5 at its lower end, on which the forward end of the clothes-frame is supported. It is therefore seen that by loosening the thumb-screw b the two pins 61 may be disengaged from their supports andthe clothes-frame run in through the window.

-Referring now to Fig. 2, it isseenthat just inside of the window two cords 7t depend from suitable supports, the lower ends of which cords are also provided with hooks, said lower endsreaching to about the level which the clothes-frame occupies when outside of the window. A supportingframe for the clothes-frame is provided in the room, which frame consists of two uprights m and a cross- 7 bar a at the top, the uprights being provided with a base consisting of narrow strips 0 and p, and from one end of the latter a brace q extends to a convenient point on the upright, to which it is made fast by tho nib-screws r, the whole constituting a frame from which one end of the clothes-frame may be supported, the opposite end being supported by the cords when clothes are to be hung on said frame to be dried out of doors. Other cords is, depending from the cross-bar n, are provided with hooks, on which the frame a is supported prior to its being swung out of the window. When the clothes are to be dried in the room, means are provided whereby the clothes-frame'may be hung on this supporting-frame, and when this is to be done the clothes-frame a is hung by one edge on the pins 8, upwardly projecting from the uprights m, and the opposite side of the clothes-frame is supported by the arms t, which are pivoted at "u, to the brace q, the said armst being capable of being swung up to the position shown in dotted lines in said. Fig. 2. The outer ends of these armst are notched to receive one side of the frame a, the latter when supported as described for drying the clothes in the house being turned at right angles to the position in which it is shown in Fig. 2.

When it is desired to put the frame a out 1 of doors for drying clothes that may have been hung thereon, the position of all the parts of the apparatus will be that shown in Fig. 2, and when the frame is full then by reaching out of the window the cord 6 may be swung in and the hooks j hooked onto the forward end of the frame, the hooks on the ends of the cords is being disengaged. The

rear end of the frame a is then disengagedfrom the hooks on the cords 7c, and the frame may then be pushed outward, the trolley h on the track 9 carrying the outer end. When the rear end has. passed through the window, the two sides of the frame may be sprung apart until the pins 01 enter the sockets e on the outsideof the casing, the screwing up of the thumb-bolt 1) serving to secure the overlapping ends of the frame.

The manner of drawing in the frame has already been described.

WVhen the supporting-frame is not in use, it and the clothes-frame may be folded up, as shown in Fig. 3, in which form it may be stood up against the side of the room, where it is entirely out of the way.

In order to effect the folding up of the frame, the thumb-screws r are disengaged from the uprights, and the brace q and the strips 19, the latter swinging on the pins *0, may be folded up against the uprights m, the clothes-frame a being hung on the pins 8, the arms 15 being folded down inside of the brace q in the same position, practically, as is shown in Fig. 2.

It will appear from the foregoing description that a very conveniently-arranged device is herein provided for use in houses whose situation makes it highly inconvenient to dry the clothes in the house and where no means are provided for drying them out of doors, it being possible, however, bymeans of this device to dry the clothes in the house in case of inclement weather.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- 1. A clothes drying device comprising a trolley-track adapted to be located centrally over a window, and a trolley-wheel for the track; a clothes-frame detachably supported by one end to the window-casing, and a connection extending from the opposite end of the frame to the axis of the trolley-wheel.

2. A clothes-drying device comprising a trolley-track adapted to be located centrally over a window, and a trolley-wheel for the track; a clothes-frame detachably supported by one end to the window-casing, and a connection extending from the opposite end of the frame to the axis of the trolley-wheel, said clothes-frame consisting of a rectangular frame one end of which is laterally adjustable in the plane of the frame. 7

3. The combination with a clothes-drying frame, of a movable supporting-frame therefor whereby the clothes-frame may be supported in a horizontal position while being filled; a tr0lley-track for said clothes-frame adapted to be located centrally over a window, a trolley-wheel for the track, a'connection extending from said wheel to one end of said clothes-frame, and means for detachably supporting the opposite end thereof on the window-casing.

4. A clothes-frame support consisting of two uprights, a base, a brace comprising brace-bars extending from the base to the uprights, a cross-bar uniting the upper ends of the latter, and swinging supports for one end of a clothes-frame on said cross-bar together with arms swinging outwardly from the bracebars to support one side of the frame, and pins on the uprights to support the other side of the frame.

DANIEL P. PRESCOTT.

Witnesses:

H. A. CHAPIN, K. I. OLEMoNs. 

